The Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Finance Desk Technology is part of Markets Technology. The Team works closely with the Citi Global Finance Desk and Markets Treasury Desks. The suite of Finance Desk applications provides position management, trade capture, electronic trading, market risk processing and reporting. This is supported by a mixed technology environment consisting of client-server applications, developed in Java, Angular and C#, with services running on Linux servers and Cloud Containers. This provides unique opportunity to work closely with the business stakeholders while building towards the strategic technology roadmap. We are looking for technically strong candidates who can work as team players and capable of taking ownership and leading the initiatives when needed.
Job Responsibilities / Role:
- Responsible for developing and maintaining suite of applications as a part of global development team.
- Production of high-quality software, emphasizing simplicity, maintainability and reuse, using standard development process.
- Understands business priorities, documents requirements and determines solutions in partnership with other internal teams.
- Accountable for all phases of development process—analysis, design, construction, testing and implementation; provides user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
- Participating in key business initiatives involving multiple workstreams.
- Coordinate global testing and schedule application rollouts.
- Contribute towards improving the Dev Ops CI/CD Pipelines and Strategic Architecture.
- Work closely with partner technology teams and to collaborate effectively.
- Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Provide L3 support for production flows.
- Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
- Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
- Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Build highly scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise applications using modern architectural patterns (microservices, event‑driven, cloud‑native)
- Translate complex business needs into robust technical designs that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Own architectural standards, conduct deep design and code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and raise overall code quality across markets technology teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in Application Development role.
- Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
Technical Skills Required:
- Strong core Java skills, JDBC/JPA, Restful web services
- Experience with frameworks like Hibernate, Junit, Spring Boot/Microservice-style application development.
- Experience in event‑driven and API-led architecture.
- AI Tools & Platforms Usage: Hands-on experience using AI tools and platforms to design, build, test, and enhance application features.
- Strong experience with Relational Databases like Oracle, MSSQL.
- Experience with build tools like Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, UDeploy
- Experience with cloud based architectures on OpenShift Kubernetes.
- Experience with Messaging and Caching frameworks such as Kafka and Gemfire/Ignite is a plus.
- Testing experience with distributed software applications.
- Strong experience with Unix or Linux.
Non-Technical Skills Required:
- Experience in working with distributed teams situated globally in different time-zones is a plus.
- Flexible and adaptive, team player.
- Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to take ownership, drive strategy and well organized.
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Job Family Group: Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:Applications Development------------------------------------------------------
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Skills Required
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
- 7+ years of relevant experience in Application Development
- Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
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